Bible Strands
John 7:29
but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the crowd in the temple courts while teaching publicly. He speaks immediately after declaring that His origin is divine and that the Father who sent Him is true.
The words — οἶδα (oida) translates literally as “know,” and παρ᾽ (par᾽) means “from.” Together they anchor Jesus’ claim to direct knowledge of the Father and His divine origin.
The thread — John 8:55 contrasts the crowd’s ignorance of the Father with Jesus’ knowledge of Him. Matthew 11:27 establishes the exclusive mutual knowledge between the Father and the Son, while John 1:18 notes the Son’s unique role in making the Father known.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to recognize Jesus’ claim of divine origin and direct knowledge of the Father as factual, not merely theological. It demands a response to His authority rather than dismissal of His identity.
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The Greek words
King James Version
But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
Cross-references
- John 8:55 You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
- Matthew 11:27 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
- John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 6:46 not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
- John 17:18 As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
- John 17:25 Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
- 1 John 4:9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
- 1 John 1:2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.